(Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 hit Western Turkey on Sunday, said the country’s disaster management authority, while local media said that the earthquake had been felt in several provinces.
The AFAD said that the earthquake had taken place around 7:53 p.m. local time in the province of Balikesir, near the largest city in Turkey, Istanbul, but there was no immediate report of victims or damage in one of the affected provinces.
The Minister of the Interior, Ali Yerlikaya, said on X that the emergency teams of the AFAD had started inspections around Istanbul and the neighboring provinces, but that no negative report had passed so far.
The AFAD said that the earthquake had struck 11 km (6.8 miles), while the German research center for Geosciences (GFZ) recorded the extent of the earthquake at 6.19 and a depth of 10 km.
(Report by Gnanehwar Rajan in Bengaluru; edition by Andrew Cawthorne and Hugh Lawson)
